automate

automate

To turn a set of manual steps into an electronic operation that runs on its own. It may also refer to removing certain human interactions with the software in an existing information system to make it operate from beginning to end without intervention. See automation.

Mike Hughes, senior vice president of Safeco Business Insurance, recently spoke to Best's Review about the company's goal to become the top writer of small and midmarket business and how the company is using automated underwriting for its business owner policy business.

Wholesale adoption of automated electronic reporting systems in their current form might instead represent a quick response to the pressures of the moment rather than a fully considered decision that acknowledges some of the documented problems with the new technology.

As an introduction, the first three chapters of the book discuss the three national automated information systems--NCIC, the Automated Identification System (AIS), and the Interstate Identification Index (III).

In a recent study by Horison Information Strategies, relative pricing comparisons were made for working subsystems of enterprise-class disk, mid-range disk, and for lower-cost IDE/ATA or subsystems, and for a variety of vendors' automated tape subsystems.

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